Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes were open , but his face was such a fearful mask of blood , foam , vomit and earth that he looked more like some demon-creature than a rabbit . |
| 2 | Scotland 's normal practice in qualifying groups is to pick up points early on and then drop some later when a cushion has been inflated to break their fall . |
| 3 | ‘ Dreadful , ’ he replied , and warmed her heart some more when a hint of a smile touched his mouth , and he voiced , ‘ Allow me to tell you , Miss Kingsdale , that your interviewing technique is appalling . ’ |
| 4 | Do not repeat this more than a couple of times in rapid succession however , because otherwise the dog may start to interpret this as a game . |
| 5 | Is this more than a mere technical exercise ? |
| 6 | We had known one another less than a year , all Paris knew of our passion , and he chose three months in the company of Du Camp ! |
| 7 | He wrote : ‘ If someone has just stepped out of your life you 'll be better reaching for this single than a bottle , razor blade or handkerchief . ’ |
| 8 | The trouble with that is that others may not be astute as they are in identifying impending crises , and will take some convincing if a crisis is not obvious . |
| 9 | Is that bigger than a tennis court ? |
| 10 | They were huge wheeled galvanised cylinders , each taller than a man and of the kind that could be chained to a garbage wagon and then hoisted and inverted in one great burst of hydraulic power . |
| 11 | Suggests a large long-legged gamebird and though mainly brown at rest shows a striking contrast in flight , with almost as much white as a flying Shelduck ( p. 51 ) . |
| 12 | As much good as a fucking chocolate ashtray . |
| 13 | Consider this passage about a sow : ‘ her combination of gross whiskery nakedness and riotous carnality is seized by the mythic imagination as a sort of uterus on the loose — upholstered with breasts , not so much many-breasted as a mobile tub entirely made of female sexual parts , a woman-sized , multiple udder of trotters . |
| 14 | It 's not much more than a broom cupboard , I know , but what do you think of it ? ’ |
| 15 | Whereas the parachute keeps the cable under tension as it drops , if there is a cross wind it tends to drift much more than a rope with no chute . |
| 16 | In the absence of any corporate direction , BR 's excursion trains then were not much more than a mishmash of bright and not so bright ideas by divisional and area managers , which lost as much money as they made . |
| 17 | A concours Mk 1 will fetch much more than a ropy Mk 2 , perhaps six years ( and maybe 100,000 miles ) its junior . |
| 18 | All that emerges from it is the sheer nastiness of a group of homosexual writers for whom the working classes were not much more than a floating brothel . |
| 19 | For him a paper was much more than a published news-sheet . |
| 20 | One Sunday night at the Wood Green Odeon a group of youths and girls were making so much more than a tolerable racket that I eventually asked them to quieten down . |
| 21 | They 're justification for the ‘ he-man ’ tag , with heavy everything at low speeds and not much more than a token lightening up as you press on harder , but not so heavy as to wipe out the sports car 's essential touch of delicacy . |
| 22 | But , much more than a filmmaker like Hepworth , he had learnt to find stories that would have genuine popular appeal . |
| 23 | The Brundtland Commission may have made sustainable development the end-of-century watchword , defining it as ‘ development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ’ , but even Tolba has wondered aloud whether it amounts to much more than a shibboleth . |
| 24 | Maybe , he 's told , he 's much more than a celebrity . |
| 25 | In fact the grouping was never much more than a rough guide . |
| 26 | The little round lawn with its grass path was so bitty that I was tempted to remove it altogether , and the two paved areas seemed too small to accommodate much more than a deckchair . |
| 27 | Mary had the chance to learn her trade as something much more than a queen consort from a politician of great skill and finesse . |
| 28 | On the opposite bank , not much more than a stream at this point , the hillside was thick with scrub hazel and thorn . |
| 29 | Ingolstadt was for some centuries the principal seat of the Bavarian dukes when Munich was not much more than a village . |
| 30 | Schmeichel is much more than a shot-stopper . |